Biography
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen is the executive director of the Center for Historical Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Endowed Chair Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University. He received his PhD cum laude from the same university in 2013. Adriaansen's research focuses on conceptions of history and historical consciousness, in the past and in the present. In 2015 he published the monograph The Rhythm of Eternity: The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933 (Berghahn, 2015). His current research focuses on the impact of digitization on historical consciousness, historical culture, and history education.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Assistant professor | Department of History
- adriaansen@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Lise Zurné & Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Immersed in the past.: What historical re-enactment reveals about rules and boundaries - The Sociological Review Magazine - doi: 10.51428/tsr.zgaf5356
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Multimodal meaning-making: How social media shapes students’ historical understanding - Teaching History, 58 (2), 40-43 - [link]
- Robbert Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Latent and explicit mnemonic communities on social media: studying digital memory formation through hashtag co-occurrence analysis - Memory, Mind and Media, 3 - doi: 10.1017/mem.2024.7 - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Pieter van Leeuwen & Tina van der Vlies (2024) - De Historisch Didactische Collectie
- Kaya de Wolff & Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Digitale und globale Erinnerungskulturen als Ausgangspunkt einer selbstreflexiven Pädagogik des Zuhörens - forum erwachsenenbildung, 57 (1), 20-24 - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Swipen door de tijd: historische representatie op sociale media - Kleio: Tijdschrift van de Vereniging van Geschiedenisleraren in Nederland, 65 (1), 28-33
- Robyn Murning & Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Paradoxical legacies and unattainable futures: South Africa’s national self-narrative and the haunting of gender-based violence in the post-transitional era - Southern Journal for Contemporary History, 48 (2), 113–139 - doi: 10.38140/sjch.v48i2.7062 - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Analogías y conciencia histórica. Lecciones generadas por los usuarios en TikTok
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Historische re-enactment als simulatie van het verleden
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Historisches Reenactment als Simulation der Vergangenheit
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (12 September 2024) - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen appointed EuroClio Chair of Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University – an interview
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (1 July 2023) - De la Compagnie des Indes aux supertankers: le fabuleux destin historique de Rotterdam
- RJ (Robbert-Jan) Adriaansen (30 September 2021) - A party holiday and a philosophical book complement each other
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (22 June 2018) - De Ochtendspits
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen & JR Stackhouse (1 January 2017) - The Rhythm of Eternity
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - The "Golden Age": An Introduction to Conceptual History and Labelling
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Technologically Augmented Scholarship? Ethical Considerations for the Use of Large Language Models in Historical Research
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Het verleden op je scherm: Sociale media en het geschiedenisonderwijs
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Exploring latent mnemonic communities on social media. A hashtag co-occurrence analysis of #ThrowbackThursday
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Remembering Collectively in the Digital Age: Latent Mnemonic Communities on Social Media Platforms
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - From Concept to Classroom: Historical Consciousness and History Education
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Social Media and Historical Culture
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2022) - Locating the past in performative history: a ludic approach
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2022) - History in latent Space. Machine learning and the multimodal analysis of historical representation on social media
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2022) - Historical Analogy and Historical Consciousness on TikTok
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4050
Honours Degree Programme
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4200B
Philosophy of History
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH2229
Hist. Cult. in a Glob. World
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4001
Applied History MA Project
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4052
History, Memory and National Identity
- Year Level
- MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4234